Seminar/Workshop about the modern accordion (duration: about 1h 30’). Main topics:

• The ancestors of the accordion: the free reed instruments from the prehistory until today and the aerophone keyboard instruments (organ, harmonium) (organology)
• View of the inside of the instrument (a concert accordion will be opened for the public)
• The accordion in the 19^th century and his relative instruments (harmonium, concertina, Bibelregal, bandoneon)
• The figure of the Danish accordion pioneer Mogens Ellegaard (1935-1996), the one that most deeply influenced the evolution of the accordion and his literature in the second half of the 20^th century
• The sound production on the accordion, the use of the bellows, extended techniques with numerous excerpts
• The contemporary accordion repertoire: concert of about 30’

The seminar can be held in English or Italian.

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